Electro—Magnetic Motor



Pad tented Dec. 31, 1889 UNITED I STATES PATENT O FICE-.1,

NIKOLA TESLA, OFNEW R N. Y;, I'ASSIGNOR T TESLA ELECTRIC" COMPANY, or SAME PLACE.

ELE c rRo-M AGNEH MOTOR.

srncxricnnon 3m of Letten PstentNo. 418,248, dated December 31, was,

s ims filed my to. 1m. Bcriel resume. (Ho ton.)

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Be it known that I HIKOLA ject of't-he Emperor. of Aus tria-Hungary,-formerly of Smiljnn,Lika,bordercoun-t1-y of Ausinyented certain-mew -a'ndrnsefnl Improve.

tria-Hungary, but

now residing at New York, inthe county and State jot New Yo'rk,'have ments in-Methods of Operating Electro Magmm Mo tors, of which the following is especi- .flcation reterence being had to the drawing accompanyingand forming a partof the'sam e.

In a No.-401,520,I havefshownrand described a patent; grantedto me April 16, 1889 methodcfoperating alternstingcnrrentmo tors by first shitting or rotating their m'ag.

netic poles ii'ntil they had reached or passed a synchronous speedand then'hlternating the poles, or, in other :wo'rds by transforming the motor by a. change of circnit connections from i by a'change of the one operated by the actionof two or more in;

dependent energizing-currents to a motor operated' by a single current or several acting as one. a

The present invention-is a specific way of carrying outthe same invention; and it con-.

sists in the following method:' 'Onthe start-I progressively'shift the magnetic poles of one element or field oflthe motor by alternating currentsdifferihgjriphese as passed through independent energising-circuits and shortcircuit the coils ot-the other element. When the motor thus started reaches-or passes the limit oi speed synchronons with the genera tor, I connect up the coils previously shortcircuited with asource of direct current and circuit-connections pro-- rrh to run in synchronisrnf duce a simple alternation of the poles. motor then continues with the generator. There are many specific:

ally-difierent ways in which this may be carried out; but I have selected one for illustrating the principle. This is illustrated in the annexed drawing, which is a side view, of a motor with a diagram vices used in-the system'. I

The motor shown is one of the ordinary terms, with fieldwes 'either laminated or solid andwith a'cylindrical' laminated armature wound, for example, with the coils A B at rightangles. The shaft of the armature carries three trolling. switch brush H. The lever f which mayspan the contacts a b. When in phase is obtained of the circuits and dep'snous speed and and llectimz orcont'act rings 0 D ferent diameters.)

, One end of'coil A. connects tb one ring,as.

C, and one end of coil B connects with ring D. The remainingends are connected t'oringE. Collecting springs or (shown; foinner illustration, as or dip,

brushes -F- G H bear npon-the'rings and lead to the contacts of a switch, tobe hereinafter described. The fieldcoils have their terminals in binding-posts K K, and may be either closed upon themselves or connected with p a source of directcurrent L by means'of a switch M. The main or contwo levers f g, pivoted and connected by an insnlatingcros's-bar h,'so as to move in paralleli'sm. These'levers are ,connected to the line wires from a source of alternating curfrents N; .Contact'a isconnectedto brushG and coil B throu h a dead-resistance Rand wire F. i'Contacth is connectedwith brush F hasfive'contacts a b c d e and and coil A through a selt-inductioncoils and 'wire 0; --Contacts 0 and e are connectedito brushes G F, respectively," through the wire P O, and contact dis directly connected wit has a widened end;

such position and with lever g on contact (1, the alternating currents divide between the two motor-coils, and by reason of their dif ferent self-induction a difEe-rence of currentthat starts the motor in rotation. In starting, as I have above stated,

'the fleld-coilsare short-circuited.

When the motor has attained-the desired speed, the switch is shiftedto the position shown in dotted linesjt-hat is to say, with the levers f g resting on points 0 e. This connects up the two armaturercoils in series, and the motor will then r-inns asynchronous motor.

lhe'field-coils-jlare thrown into circuit with the'di-rect-current "source when the main switch is shifted.

of the other elemenqas herein set iorth.

2. The method of operating electro mag ICC netic motors, which consists in Qshdrb-circuitrent and through the armature-coils alternatr' ing the coils of one element, as the field-mag: ing currents coinciding in phase.

net and passing through the ener izin -coils Y of ihe other element, as the armaizurefalter- NIBOLA TESLA' 'irffen we iinp'toi 'lias atniined a given speed, R. J. STONEY, J12, mssingthrough the field-coils a direct cur- E.-P. COFFIN. n 

